Adenophora adenophora, alias soaked ginseng and soaked ginseng, is Adenophora tetraphylla, Adenophora armeniaca or their homologous plants of Adenophora of Campanulaceae, and is used as medicine by roots. Planing in autumn, removing aerial parts and fibrous roots, scraping off rough skin and drying in the sun immediately. Clearing heat and nourishing yin, moistening lung and relieving cough. Indications: tracheitis, whooping cough, cough due to lung heat, yellow and thick expectoration. The root of Adenophora adenophora is conical or cylindrical, slightly curved, with yellowish white or yellowish brown surface, one or several reed heads at the top, intermittent rings with deep yellow lines on the upper part of the root, and residual coarse skin, and longitudinal stripes and grooves on the lower part. The body is light and brittle, easy to break, uneven in section, yellow and white, with cracks. Odorless and slightly sweet. It is better to be uniform in thickness, fat and white in color.
Glehnia littoralis, also known as Laiyang ginseng and Haisha ginseng, is the root of coral vegetables and can be used as medicine. The most remarkable effect of Radix Glehniae is nourishing yin and moistening lung, which has a good effect on clearing lung heat and improving lung function. It is often used to treat lung heat, dry cough, cough and phlegm, fever, body fluid injury and thirst, and has a good effect. Radix Glehniae has a good effect on improving the immune function of the body, and can improve the patient's own resistance to diseases.
Although Nansha and Radix Glehniae are two kinds of plant medicinal materials belonging to different families and genera, it is generally considered that the functions of the two medicines are similar, but subdivided, Radix Glehniae tends to clear lung and eliminate phlegm, while Radix Glehniae tends to nourish stomach and promote fluid production. When cooking porridge, you can choose it dialectically. The nutrients contained in Radix Glehniae and Radix Glehniae are also different. Radix Glehniae contains triterpenoid saponins, starch and other components. Glehnia littoralis contains alkaloids, starch, volatile oil, sitosterol, coral and other components. In terms of efficacy, there is a slight difference between North and South Adenophora adenophora, and North Adenophora adenophora tends to clear lung heat and eliminate phlegm, which is suitable for wind-heat cold and lung dryness. Modern medical research points out that Radix Adenophorae has obvious expectorant and cardiotonic effects; Adenophora adenophora has the effects of strengthening respiration and raising blood pressure.